Collapsible barrel



April 5, 1932 .J, BELL COLLAPSIBLE BARREL Filed Nov. 8, 1929 Patented Apr. 5, 1932 1,852,281

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ROBERT J. BELL, F BALTIMORE, MARYLAND COLLAPSIBLE BARREL Application filed November 8, 1929. Serial No. 405,614.

This invention relates to barrels and lr s and the other is provided with vertically special reference to a collapsible sheet metal spaced inwardly projecting buttons 14: havbarrel. ing heads sufficiently small to pass through Collapsible steel or other metal barrels con the larger ends of the slots 13 and suihciently sisting of a pair of substantially se1ni-c'ylinlarge to overlap the edges of the smaller '65 drical side sheets and a pair of flanged ends of said slots. The spacing of the slots heads are well known. Such barrels have and buttons is the same so that the two sechad the edges of the side sheets secured to tions are readilyasembled by passing the gether and the heads secured to the body by button heads of one section through the key 10 various means and the principal object of the hole slots in the other and sliding one section 00 present invention is to provide a novel and on the other until the two sections are flush at, simple securing means in such barrels, the le l ends and the button shanks in the means being fixedly attached to or formed 3111211181" BIlClS 0f t e keyhole Slots. from or on the respective member of the her At each end edge each Section 10 is prol, vided with a series of horizontal key hole 65 With the above and other objects in view SIOtS p d ir tlm reiltially about the the invention consists in general of a collapsiend d 63011 SlOt 15 1S pr vlded W th a Slit 16 ble barrel made from sheet metal in sections extqndlng through the djacent edge Of the and novel and improved connecting means for Sectlon Thus the Slots 15 and 16 form a id sections, bayonet slot. Each head 17 has a flange 18 In the accompanying drawings, like charfrom the lhslde of Which extend h h fi acters of reference indicate like parts in the 19 S0 Spaced that the head y he POSltlOIled Saveml views d on the assembled body sectlons and the Figure 1 is a vertical section of a complete Shanks 9 the buttons 19 Passed through F barrel constructed in accordance with this in- Shts 16 lhto the y hole Slots: the head hemg fi rotated to bring the shanks into the smaller Figure 2 is a section on the line 22 of Figends of h S1OtS 15- um 1; Thus, the sect ons 10 may be assembled and Figure 8 is an enlarged detail view or one the heads RP Wlthouh use 9 tools Side sheet connecting means; or any loose iasteners such as wires, pin, nuts 80 Figure at is a section on the line ll of or the Figure 3; There has thus been provlded a simple and Figure 5 is a View from the inside of the eflicient device oi the kind described and for barrel showing the means for connecting a the Ph l Q P 85 head to the body It is obv1ous that mlnor changes may be In the embodiment of the invention here m h form and (ionstrhctlon of the h illustrated, the barrel is shown as consisting h h Wlthout h h from the matsrlal of two like substantially semi-cylindrical prlhclple s theheoh It 15 desn'ed 40 body sections 10, the vertical edge portions that the lhvehhlhh he not hmlted 1h Scope to 11 f hi h are 5111001511 so th t th d f the exact form here shown and described but one section may slide longitudinally on the that the invention be limited y y the PB corresponding edge of the other section when of the appended claim. overlapped thereon. Between these smooth Having thus described the invention, what edge portions reinforcing ribs 12 may be is claimed as new is pressed or otherwise formed in the sheet metal In a collapsible barrel, a plurality of deof which the sections are composed. tachable sections having pairs of overlap- Uf each two coacting or meeting edge porping coacting edges, one edge of each pair betions 11 one is provided with vertically aring provided with a series of vertical key hole 56 ranged and vertically spaced key hole slots 13 slots and the other edges of the pair being provided with buttons fixed thereon having heads adapted to pass through the larger ends of the key hole slots and of larger size than and slidable vertically into the smaller ends of said slots, two of said sections being substantially semi-cylindrical and having their vertical edges coacting and provided with said buttons and slots to form the body of the barrel, said two sections having bayonet slots at their top and bottom edges adjacent their side edges and registering in pairs upon assembly of said two sections, the remaining two sections forming flanged heads, the flanges whereof coact with the top and bottom edges of the body and are provided with buttons to engage the bayonet slots of the body at said top and bottom edges certain of said buttons of the flanged heads-engaging in the registering bayonet slots to lock the semi-cylindrical sections against vertical movement with respect to each other.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ROBERT J. BELL. 

